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Chad Johnston has signed on as the new crew chief for Tony Stewart and the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing team. He'll begin his new position in December.

Johnston replaces Steve Addington on the No. 14 Chevy; Addington had been the crew chief for the past two seasons. Johnston joins fellow SHR newcomer Rodney Childers, who worked with Johnston at MWR and Evernham prior to accepting the crew chief position on the No. 4 Chevy with Kevin Harvick.

Roush Fenway Racing has announced it is reorganizing its crew chief lineup in 2014. Mike Kelley, who has served as the crew chief on the #6 NASCAR Nationwide Series team for the past four seasons, will move to the Sprint Cup Series, where he will reunite with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. on the #17 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team. "Its really exciting to team back up with Mike," said Stenhouse, the 2013 Sprint Cup rookie of the year and two-time NASCAR champion. "Obviously we have a great chemistry and we have had a great deal of success in the past. Scott (Graves) did a great job of guiding us through our rookie season this year and we look forward to continuing that growth next season." Kelley and Stenhouse partnered to win NNS championships in 2011 and 2012.
Veteran crew chief Chad Norris will take the helm of the #6 AdvoCare team with Trevor Bayne, which will look to be a front-runner for the 2014 NNS title. Scott Graves, who helped lead Stenhouse to the 2013 Sprint Cup rookie of the year award as the crew chief of the #17 NSCS team, will crew chief former ARCA Champion Chris Buescher in the historic #60 car. Seth Barbour, who was impressive in his performance with Buescher and Ryan Reed in 2013, will sit atop the #16 NNS Ford full time with Reed in 2014. On the Cup side, legendary crew chief Jimmy Fennig will again lead the #99 Fastenal team with Carl Edwards and Matt Puccia will once again team with Greg Biffle and the #16 3M team.(Roush Fenway)(11-19-2013)

Speaking of all these crew chiefs... whatever became of Michael "Fatback" McSwain?

SecretAgentHarvick wrote:

Speaking of all these crew chiefs... whatever became of Michael "Fatback" McSwain?

Looked up his Twitter page. It says "I left racing to be with my wife and kids. I now own and operate a tire and auto repair center in Dallas."

Austin to run trucks full-time: Chase Austin will compete in the Camping World Truck Series in 2014. He will be competing in Chevrolets. He wiil have Barry Dodson as general manager and crew chief. Barry will also have some ownership in the team and will be responsible for hiring all team members. Additionally, Chase Austin Motorsports will soon relocate to Mooresville, North Carolina.(Chase Austin Motorsports PR)(11-20-2013)

Phoenix Racing announced that Steve Addington will serve as competition director for the team and crew chief of the #51 Chevy for the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.

Author:	Gael [ Tue Nov 19, 2013 4:05 pm ]
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Quote: Chad Johnston has signed on as the new crew chief for Tony Stewart and the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing team. He'll begin his new position in December. Johnston replaces Steve Addington on the No. 14 Chevy; Addington had been the crew chief for the past two seasons. Johnston joins fellow SHR newcomer Rodney Childers, who worked with Johnston at MWR and Evernham prior to accepting the crew chief position on the No. 4 Chevy with Kevin Harvick. http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/c ... 014-111913

Author:	ChrisTRD [ Tue Nov 19, 2013 4:43 pm ]
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What's the deal with Addington? In the last 5 or 6 years or so he's been CC for Kyle, Kurt, Tony now probably someone else.

Author:	SBan83 [ Tue Nov 19, 2013 4:54 pm ]
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He's just not all that good, it would seem.

Author:	Andre [ Tue Nov 19, 2013 8:33 pm ]
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He was Kyle's crew chief during his span of dominance in 2008, so his stock went up considerably. He's evidently not too shabby, but one might wonder what he's like to work with. Kyle, Kurt, Tony - three incredibly stubborn drivers, if hearing radio conversations is any indication whatsoever. The next one on that list of potentially hard-to-get-through-to drivers would be Kevin Harvick, but Rodney Childers has those honors next year.

Author:	OldAsphalt [ Tue Nov 19, 2013 11:34 pm ]
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Quote: Roush Fenway Racing has announced it is reorganizing its crew chief lineup in 2014. Mike Kelley, who has served as the crew chief on the #6 NASCAR Nationwide Series team for the past four seasons, will move to the Sprint Cup Series, where he will reunite with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. on the #17 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team. "Its really exciting to team back up with Mike," said Stenhouse, the 2013 Sprint Cup rookie of the year and two-time NASCAR champion. "Obviously we have a great chemistry and we have had a great deal of success in the past. Scott (Graves) did a great job of guiding us through our rookie season this year and we look forward to continuing that growth next season." Kelley and Stenhouse partnered to win NNS championships in 2011 and 2012. Veteran crew chief Chad Norris will take the helm of the #6 AdvoCare team with Trevor Bayne, which will look to be a front-runner for the 2014 NNS title. Scott Graves, who helped lead Stenhouse to the 2013 Sprint Cup rookie of the year award as the crew chief of the #17 NSCS team, will crew chief former ARCA Champion Chris Buescher in the historic #60 car. Seth Barbour, who was impressive in his performance with Buescher and Ryan Reed in 2013, will sit atop the #16 NNS Ford full time with Reed in 2014. On the Cup side, legendary crew chief Jimmy Fennig will again lead the #99 Fastenal team with Carl Edwards and Matt Puccia will once again team with Greg Biffle and the #16 3M team.(Roush Fenway)(11-19-2013)

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Author:	Joe4345 [ Wed Nov 20, 2013 12:52 am ]
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Keep rearranging those Titanic deck chairs Jack.......

Author:	coolmike [ Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:06 am ]
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No wonder Jimmie has won the cup 6 out of the last 8 friggin years, there is no consistency in the garage outside of the 48 camp.

Author:	SecretAgentHarvick [ Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:47 pm ]
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Speaking of all these crew chiefs... whatever became of Michael "Fatback" McSwain?

Author:	Dan Belcher [ Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:54 pm ]
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SecretAgentHarvick wrote: Speaking of all these crew chiefs... whatever became of Michael "Fatback" McSwain? Looked up his Twitter page. It says "I left racing to be with my wife and kids. I now own and operate a tire and auto repair center in Dallas."

Author:	Chris A [ Wed Nov 20, 2013 3:28 pm ]
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Hah, I'm just glad to hear he's alive and (apparently) well. The nickname is fun and all but he looked like someone who could face a major cardiac issue at any moment.

Author:	Cheeveer [ Wed Nov 20, 2013 3:59 pm ]
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He was real racing, NASCAR-style.

Author:	ChrisTRD [ Wed Nov 20, 2013 4:47 pm ]
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The shot of him celebrating when Bobby won Homestead in 2003 was awesome.

Author:	FHgrad99 [ Thu Nov 21, 2013 1:57 am ]
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Another new entry into the truck series. This is from Jayski.com Quote: Austin to run trucks full-time: Chase Austin will compete in the Camping World Truck Series in 2014. He will be competing in Chevrolets. He wiil have Barry Dodson as general manager and crew chief. Barry will also have some ownership in the team and will be responsible for hiring all team members. Additionally, Chase Austin Motorsports will soon relocate to Mooresville, North Carolina.(Chase Austin Motorsports PR)(11-20-2013) Considering how his previous "full-time" truck series effort turned out a few years ago (team didn't make it to the summer), I don't know if I should expect much from this team.

Author:	Andre [ Thu Nov 21, 2013 5:11 pm ]
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I was bored at work the other day, so I did some stat and number crunching while looking at some of the greats in the sport. There's been a lot of talk about comparing Jimmie Johnson to Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty in recent days... drivers are definitely a forever-changing breed, so comparing Johnson's competition to theirs is somewhat silly. There were no drama queens like Kyle Busch back in the day. None that I can think of, anyway. haha Here goes. Richard Petty; 1958-1992 17% of his starts were wins 47% of his starts were Top 5's 60% of his starts were Top 10's 7 Championships Didn't win from 1985 to 1992. Managed 1 Top 10 points finish in that span, but finished outside of the Top 20 in points the last five years of his career. Unfortunately, the Past Champion's Provisional was mostly created due to his struggles in making the field in the late 80's\early 90's. David Pearson; 1960-1986 18% of his starts were wins 52% of his starts were Top 5's 64% of his starts were Top 10's 3 Championships Of the seasons he made an honest attempt at starting most races (four in total), he won the title three times. The rest of the time, he mostly ran a little more than half the races, and won a pretty big chunk of those. Even when he ran as few as 2 races a year (like in his final year), there was never a season that he didn't earn a Top 10 (race) finish. Dale Earnhardt; 1975-2001 11% of his starts were wins 42% of his starts were Top 5's 63% of his starts were Top 10's 7 Championships Won the title the year after winning ROTY honors, but it took him a while to win another one. Considering he won back-to-back titles three times after this, 7 titles could have potentially been more. Injuries seemed to take the wind out of his sails for a couple years, but he'd eventually come back to winning form every time. Was really considered as a favourite to win the title in 2001 after a runner-up finish in 2000, but we all know what happened. Darrell Waltrip; 1972-2000 10% of his starts were wins 34% of his starts were Top 5's 48% of his starts were Top 10's 3 Championships Had it not been for a broken leg at Daytona in '90, he could've had an impressive run of Top 10 points finishes. He made some decisions regarding his own team's engines later on in his career, choosing his own program over Hendrick engines, which somewhat proved to be his downfall. He jumped from team to team, proving he still could still perform in '98 when he ran for DEI, but didn't exactly have the best team stability until his retirement in 2000. Cale Yarborough; 1957-1988 15% of his starts were wins 46% of his starts were Top 5's 57% of his starts were Top 10's 3 Championships Went part time for the latter part of his career, but stayed pretty competitive. He didn't "putter around at the back", that's for sure. Bobby Allison; 1961-1988 12% of his starts were wins 47% of his starts were Top 5's 62% of his starts were Top 10's 1 Championship Never seemed to have the best luck when it came to winning the title, but he was still pretty damn consistent. Was still capable of winning races when he had his career-ending injury in '88. Jeff Gordon; 1992-today 12% of his starts were wins 42% of his starts were Top 5's 59% of his starts were Top 10's 4 Championships Incredible dominance in the mid-to-late 90's turned into moderate success in the early-to-mid 2000's. A "bad year" was considered a "two win only" season, until more recent years have humbled him (and us fans) quite a bit. It's a different era with in terms of constantly changing cars (which they did back in the day, just not quite as often), but he's still considered a threat every week. Tony Stewart; 1999-today 9% of his starts were wins 34% of his starts were Top 5's 56% of his starts were Top 10's 3 Championships Those percentages seem a bit low compared to everyone else, but there's no doubting he's among the greats of this era. Jimmie Johnson; 2001-today 15% of his starts were wins 42% of his starts were Top 5's 63% of his starts were Top 10's 6 Championships Obviously, the Chase has changed what it takes to win a championship. Still, every driver shows up at Speedweeks knowing what needs to be done to win the title. These guys have been the best at that, without question. Even then, with a little luck, he had the potential to be the champ in his rookie season. So, yeah. You can look at these stats up and down, but it doesn't really tell you everything. I just so happened to be curious, so I whipped out a calculator and went to Racing-Reference.info.

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Author:	Andre [ Thu Nov 21, 2013 5:13 pm ]
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Also, I don't expect you to read all of that. I needed an outlet since this was on my mind, and since I don't have a blog for racing like I do with video games, TBK just so happened to be it.

Author:	EIB Fan [ Thu Nov 21, 2013 6:10 pm ]
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Actually that was pretty interesting.

Author:	Cheeveer [ Thu Nov 21, 2013 6:43 pm ]
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Yes, thank you. To me, David Pearson's successes is the most impressive in the sport.

Author:	Gael [ Thu Nov 21, 2013 7:19 pm ]
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Quote: Phoenix Racing announced that Steve Addington will serve as competition director for the team and crew chief of the #51 Chevy for the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.

Author:	Joe4345 [ Fri Nov 22, 2013 1:57 am ]
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I was doing some research for a Stewart model earlier and ran across this interesting pic; Tony on the championship stage last week. Amazing how much they had to sew him up....I can't even imagine having your leg bones poking out saying hi.